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Jaume Plensa’s Tolerance statue and Rosemont Pedestrian Bridge, Houston, Texas / Photo by Patrick Feller If a profligate comes to you with news, make sure you understand it (tabayyanu), and make sure you know it... -
In her landmark interdisciplinary study of African diaspora religious systems through dance performances, Yvonne Daniel considers three religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior—Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba (commonly called... -
Each year, writers and musicians from across the globe converge in Kosovo for the three-day Festival of Literature in Orllan, a vibrant celebration of local and international literature. Here, poet and translator Brian Sneeden offers an inside... -
Isolation: Companion of Conscience, by Georgitta J. Valiyamattam Iconoclast Indian novelist Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower, set in the maximum city of Mumbai, is not only the fight of one man against his times but also the... -
Migratory art refers to works that are visual (or aural) representations of the act of migration, made by immigrants. The concepts of body horror, evolution, and audio stimuli illuminate their aesthetic qualities and shared ambition: to be... -
Many Native writers working today are known for their spoken-word and/or multi-genre performances. To complement their work in the print edition, we’ve gathered the following sampling. Kimberly Blaeser Heid Erdrich Eric Gansworth Arigon... -
thebmag, “Another Nuclear Winter,” Dogern, Germany, December 3, 2005 German writers are tackling the complex question of writing the environment in diverse narrative forms that provide a human scope for planet-scale issues. The... -
Photo: Shevaun Williams In 1978 Dubravka Ugrešić published her first short-story collection, A Pose for Prose. Life Is a Fairy Tale followed in 1983. The protagonists of these stories find phalluses in their hot dog buns... -
Photo: Shevaun Williams My training as a scholar of Russian literature and culture colors my readings of Dubravka Ugrešić’s work. No matter how hard I try to stop myself from reaching for parallels in classic Russian and Soviet novels, works of... -
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house in Bethesda, Maryland; in the bistro of the...
